How many times did David Beach apply for his Revolutionary War pension? How much did Joseph Smead of Massachusetts receive for his? Did Ephraim Blackmer ever get the land warrant he applied for after ...

UNDATED (CNN Newsource/CNN/WKRC) - Volunteers have been working with the National Archives to transcribe pension files from the Revolutionary War, discovering new insights into the lives and stories ...

An MP has called for an inquiry into alleged failings by the War Pension Scheme and the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, asking whether the claims process for injured veterans is fit for purpose.

IMF says the enormous costs of European rearmament, the consequences of the international trade war and demands made by banks ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

With a straight and pious face, the Senate and House extended the civil-service pension system* to all elected Federal officials: namely, the President, the Vice President—and themselves. To be ...

Colonists’ loyalties were split during the Revolutionary War, as shown in the Battle of Brandywine. Revolutionary War reenactors recreate the Battle of Brandywine on the grounds of the Chadds Ford ...

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” In many ways, the overgrown cemetery on a South Carolina rice plantation ...

After years of venturing offshore, some of Australia’s biggest pension funds are scooping up more government bonds at home — assets they now deem among the safest as trade-war risks rattle markets.